"減薪裁員"違法、失政府的"誠信"原則---五院如是說。
難得6點40起。Chrome 當機數次。"颱風假"，不過只是陣陣小語。
圖書館的功能/效力無法量化。趙民德前天說，60年代初，台大圖書館非開架式，管理人員也很兇。當時，東海大學圖書館早就開架式，而且館長都懂得要讓圖書館的服務日日新。1968一學年，我每天從一中騎腳踏車到省立台中圖書館借還書一本，非開架式，兩位管理人員服務還很辛勤。顯然，台中圖書館比一中的圖書館好得多，我才會選擇校外的。我的第一本英文小說就從台中圖書館借出，而不是一中附近的美新處USIS圖書館。
80年代初，電子所(工研院)圖書館的服務很好，水平跟英國的大學圖書館類似。
去年希臘內閣有幾位是英國Essex大學的校友，他們也許是左傾的，談的是馬克斯經濟學等。我對這，很沒胃口，雖然圖書館內的馬克思"學派"著作量，與莎士比亞的類似。
圖書館最重要的，是能與你當時的胃口相合。英國圖書館分類較細，我寫論文時，造訪過倫敦專收科學書的"科學圖書館"。80年代，曾對Design for Assemble 有興趣，去日本國會圖書館查北歐在此領域的進展。台灣國科會支助台大等成立數學類專門圖書館，視野還是不夠寬廣。
Jean-Claude Eloy -- Shanti / "Prémonitions" (1973)
US-based Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has promised to share her winnings in the Caine Prize for African Writing with the runners up.
She received the £10,000 ($15,600) prize for her short story The Sack.
The judges described it as "innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic".
Ms Serpell was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.
Two South Africans and two Nigerians were also shortlisted for the prize - Masande Ntshanga for Space, FT Kola for A Party for the Colonel, Elnathan John for Flying and Segun Afolabi for The Folded Leaf.
Ms Serpell told BBC Newsday that the promise to share the winnings was "an act of mutiny".
"I wanted to change the structure of the prize.
"It is very awkward to be placed into this position of competition with other writers that you respect immensely and you feel yourself put into a sort of American idol or race-horse situation when actually, you all want to support each other."
The chair of judges, Zoe Wicomb, awarded the prize at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in the UK.
The short story "yields fresh meaning with every reading," she said.
In The Sack, two men who live together their whole lives love one woman but don't know which one of them she loves.
"One of the men has a series of backwards moving dreams about his own death and he becomes very paranoid about the other man," Ms Serpell said.
蘋論：年金改革已有社會共識
據本期《今周刊》的專題報導，台灣老化人口所佔全人口的比率將在2015年追上希臘，意謂著更少人要養更多人，開不了源，也節不了流。而在制度面，台灣年金制度更超過希臘，包括：1、台灣公務員退休金替代率上限高達95％，少數超過100％，令人髮指；而希臘現在的公務員退休金替代率平均只有56％。2、台灣公務員平均退休年齡僅55歲；而希臘的平均退休年齡已延長到67歲。3、台灣勞工退休金計算仍用5年最高薪資計算，公務員用退休前1年最高薪資計算；而希臘已改為延長至退休前15年平均薪資計算。
台灣歷來也有呼籲要改革年金制，但都被刁鑽自私的公務員以選舉綁架執政黨而失敗。馬總統信誓旦旦改革年金，即因軟弱無能順服於刁吏的要脅而放棄。
台灣歷來也有呼籲要改革年金制，但都被刁鑽自私的公務員以選舉綁架執政黨而失敗。馬總統信誓旦旦改革年金，即因軟弱無能順服於刁吏的要脅而放棄。
10年後台恐破產
蔡英文前天表示，若民進黨執政，重點工作將是漸進式財政紀律的重建與年金制度的改革。很困難嗎？沒有想像的困難。據《今周刊》的調查，台灣79％的公務員和82％的勞工很識大體，支持年金改革，包括調降替代率和延長退休年齡，他們也恐懼年金破產，大家像希臘那樣一無所有，因此改革年金已有社會共識，萬勿蹉跎懦弱。
若不改革，再過10年台灣的退休總支出將佔財政支出的23％，逼近現在希臘的25％，「一個足以令國家破產的水準」！
下午13；00-1600
原來先前看的是續集
若不改革，再過10年台灣的退休總支出將佔財政支出的23％，逼近現在希臘的25％，「一個足以令國家破產的水準」！
下午13；00-1600
原來先前看的是續集
Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud,Daniel Craig, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough. This 1998 film is loosely based on the early years of Elizabeth's reign. In 2007, Blanchett and Rush reprised their roles in the sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, covering the later part of her reign.
The film brought Australian actress Blanchett to international attention. She won several awards for her portrayal of Elizabeth, notably a BAFTA and a Golden Globe in 1998, while the film was also named the 1998 BAFTA Best British Film. Elizabeth was nominated in 7 categories in the 71st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, receiving the prize for Best Makeup.
The film sees a young Elizabeth elevated to the throne on the death of her half-sisterMary I, who had imprisoned her. Her reign over the divided and bankrupt realm is perceived as weak and under threat of invasion by Early Modern France or Habsburg Spain. For the future stability and security of the crown she is urged by advisor William Cecil (Attenborough) to marry, and has suitors in the Catholic Philip II of Spain and the French Henri, Duc d'Anjou. She instead embarks on an affair with the wholly unsuitableRobert Dudley (Fiennes).
Elizabeth must counter threats from within such as the powerful 4th Duke of Norfolk(Eccleston), and from the armies of Mary of Guise (Ardant) garrisoned in Scotland. She also faces plots from Rome directed by Pope Pius V (Gielgud). Assisted by her 'spymaster' Francis Walsingham (Rush), she puts down the threats both internal and external, ruthlessly executing the plotters. Elizabeth eventually ends her affair and resolves to marry nobody except England. The film ends with Elizabeth assuming the persona of the 'Virgin Queen', and saying: "I am married to England", initiating England'sGolden Age.
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